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View Poll Results: Do you agree with ban on smoking inside cars with children?

re: Smoking Illegal With Children In Car[W:501]

Originally Posted by Henrin

Yeah, there is a great defense of the state. Tell me again why I can't tint all my windows? Oh right, the state wants to arrest me for stuff.

Not too hard to figure out why you can't tint all your windows. Police officers need to be able to see inside your car for their safety and the safety of others. It isn't just because they don't want to, but because it is safer. Their safety and public safety in general outweighs your privacy while driving a motor vehicle on public roads.

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re: Smoking Illegal With Children In Car[W:501]

Originally Posted by roguenuke

Not too hard to figure out why you can't tint all your windows. Police officers need to be able to see inside your car for their safety and the safety of others. It isn't just because they don't want to, but because it is safer. Their safety and public safety in general outweighs your privacy while driving a motor vehicle on public roads.

Yeah, my rights are counterbalanced against safety instead of other rights. Nothing backwards about that. Really though, it's because they want to harass me about stupid **** like seat belts.

re: Smoking Illegal With Children In Car[W:501]

Originally Posted by roguenuke

To me this is a question of one person's rights over another person's rights. Children have rights too and should not be forced to travel in vehicles with adults smoking around them. Since children really have no choice when it comes to whether or not they are traveling in a car, then they should be protected from having adults (who should be more concerned with the child's welfare rather than their own selfish need to smoke, but not all are) smoking around them, an action that is known to be harmful to the health of the child, both short term and long term, despite denial of this.

This law doesn't change that. Parents who are going to smoke around their kids are going to smoke around their kids.

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re: Smoking Illegal With Children In Car[W:501]

Originally Posted by roguenuke

Not too hard to figure out why you can't tint all your windows. Police officers need to be able to see inside your car for their safety and the safety of others. It isn't just because they don't want to, but because it is safer. Their safety and public safety in general outweighs your privacy while driving a motor vehicle on public roads.

So if something is safer then the government should be allowed to force you into it? (this is a very loaded question)

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”